At the second note the hangman let his prisoner go, and danced also, and by the time he had played the first bar of the tune, all were dancing together—judge, court, and miser, and all the people who had followed to look on.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

b. Mîlle , a thousand , in the singular is usually an indeclinable adjective (as, mîlle mîlitês , a thousand soldiers ), but in the plural it is a declinable noun and takes the partitive genitive (as, decem mîlia mîlitum , ten thousand soldiers ).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

—Some native herb-doctors use the root as a purgative, giving a decoction of 4–8 grams to a cup of water.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The author of Piers Ploughman gives a description of the appearance of a monastery in the fourteenth century.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Nations, like individuals, are born, proceed through a predestined growth, and die.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

After this mischance, the queen’s majesty directed her letters to the mayor, willing him to take order for the speedy repairing of the same: and she, of her gracious disposition, for the furtherance thereof, did presently give and deliver in gold one thousand marks, with a warrant for a thousand loads of timber, to be taken out of her woods or elsewhere.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And suppose we found this paragraph in the newspapers: “Yesterday a visiting party of American pork-millionaires had a picnic in Westminster Abbey, and in that sacred place they ate their luncheon, sang popular songs, played games, and danced waltzes and polkas.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Note 120 ( return ) [ Te propter, gelidis Aquilo de monte procellis Obruit adversas acies; revolutaque tela Vertit in auctores, et turbine reppulit hastas O nimium dilecte Deo, cui fundit ab antris
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

They carry in their very pluck, grit, and determination the conviction and assurance of success.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Suddenly one great hand shot out and he seized the girl by the arm in a crushing, powerful grasp and dragged her to him.
— from The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana Hills by Ridgwell Cullum

He endeavoured to receive with proper gravity and dignity the ball from Sidney, who gave him a few words of appropriate advice, but he failed utterly in the attempt.
— from Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Judge Gill is a gentleman of singular vivacity and activity, and indefatigable in his endeavors to bring forward the cultivation of his lands; of great and essential service, by his example, in the employment he finds for so many persons, and in all his attempts to serve the interests of the place where he dwells, and in his acts of private munificence, and public generosity, and deserves great respect and esteem, not only from individuals, but from the town and country he has so greatly benefited, and especially by the ways in which he makes use of that vast estate wherewith a kind Providence has blessed him.
— from Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen

The people generally are distinguished for the politeness of their manners, and the sensibleness of their notions.
— from Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. by Ludvig Holberg

As these cœlom-pouches or cœlom-sacs detach themselves from the primitive gut, a double body-cavity is formed (Figs. 74–76).
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

This latter point is of great importance and applies equally as regards the injury that might be done by one Province to another, as the British consumer regards Australian produce generically, and does not distinguish between the output of different Provinces.
— from Australasian Democracy by Henry de Rosenbach Walker

To see me trotting about in Paquin gowns and Doucet models, you'd never think I owed them to three owlish little burros, would you?
— from Cupid's Understudy by Salisbury Field

“What is the matter, Mr. Lincoln,” said a friend one day, when he saw him looking particularly grave and dispirited.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln